13 2003 Over The Edge Page 14 Well { hope everyone had a awesome Christmas break, and Happy New Year too. if you er a chance Memes Vegetarian Experience Home grown Favorites There is something essen- tially satisfying about an amazing burger. So far | have not been impressed by the many “tastes like meat” processed veggie burgers out there. | personally, have never understood the mar- ket attempts to create something that tastes just like meat (or so goes the claim)-but isn’t. Being veg- etarian, | don’t want an imi- tation. | want something that celebrates what | do eat-enter the portabello mushroom burger. The portabello mushroom can be found at most grocery stores in the same isle as the humble button mush- room. Furthermore, porta- bellos are roughly tradition- al patty size AND lend them- , ; friends _ Bloom), and Gimii Merry Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando (John HiyeDaviest search for their ied companions. Soon : Frodo a Sam are joined by a oe and ee 1 by the voic selves to barbecuing. The fare “Mordor, ig (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy _ Boyd) are held captive by Orcs, and Aragorn (Viggo fight scenes, wma just kidding. But it is REALLY caret ME IF You CAN Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this true story created by Steven Spielberg. In this movie he plays Frank Abagnale, Jr. In his short life he has worked ass doctor, a lawyer and also as a co-pilot for a major airline - and he has all of this before his 18th birthday! Frank, being a mas- ter of deception. was also a ae Ake ey his of she United Slates. ling FBI Agent Carl Hanratsy /S- pens care ra ae Portabello Mushroom burg- result is a rich, delicious burg- . er er that is guaranteed to receive rave reviews. Two portabello mushrooms washed with stalks removed 1/4 cup veggie oil Seasonings of choice (stick with salt and pepper for a plain taste, add garlic, or chili powder for variety) Place the mushrooms in a shallow dish. Mix oil and seasonings. Pour half of mix on one side of the mushrooms, flip and cover with remaining mix. Let marinate for 10 min. Barbecue or grill the mushrooms until soft about three minutes per side. Serve on buns with fresh lettuce and tomatoes(or whatever is your fancy) Here’s Some Gear By Destrudo In a world of pop music that suffers from over compression and normalization, | was reluc- tant to try my hand at using the Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer. However, | discov- ered that when implemented as an effect rather than a full treatment of my overall guitar tone it could be quite useful. The control features of this unit, like most Boss stomp boxes, is very simple to use and understand. There are four knobs to choose from to adjust the effect consisting of Level, Tone, Attack, and Sustain. Level is quite simply the effect level adjust. Tone allows you to add high frequencies or cut them from the effect. This is useful if the compression effect empha- sizes certain high or low fre- quencies that are undesirable. The Attack knob allows you to adjust the crispness of your picking. With the Attack knob turned to the left it softens the sound which can come in handy if your clean tone is a little abrasive. The Sustain knob allows you to adjust the sustain time. This allows you to make the sub- tleties of your tone louder or quieter. With the knob turned all the way to the left the pedal operates as a limiter which prevents certain parts of your signal being much louder than the rest of your signal. Turned all the way to the right the sus- tain brings out quieter, subtler sounds in your performance. avvack suetAai \" @ ourput Compression Sustainer cs-3 INPUT @& 4 | guess now would be a good time to explain compres- sion to the best of my ability. | will try to put it simply. Compression is an effect that takes the loud decibel range of your signal and the quite deci- bel range of your signal and squashes these ranges into a similar decibel range. When this effect is used correctly it can be quite useful to bring out certain subtle dynamics in one’s guitar solo, or it can goa long way to keeping a vocal take from being too loud or too quite in certain areas. However, used incorrectly, this effect can make a musical per- formance sound like a beer commercial. What | mean by this is that in any given com- mercial with music and narra- tion compression is utilized to keep the music loud when only it is playing, and then squash- ing the music down to make room in the decibel range for the narration. When a produc- er in the studio uses too much compression, ie: treatment to the whole song, the overall effect is that the song has no dynamic range, and generally results in a very fatiguing listen for the listener. So, if you think you can make use of this device, then do so. But keep in mind that too much compression sounds just plain silly. This particular unit can be found at Electron Sound & Percussion 3658 Massey Drive. TTFN!